The 19th Sarajevo Film Festival ended on Saturday, August 24th with the award-giving ceremony. 

The Georgian film In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß won the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film. The Special Jury award was given to the Croatian/ Bosnian&Herzegovinian film A Stranger/Obrana i zaštita by Bobo Jelcic. Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress for their role in the film In Bloom while The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor was awarded to Bogdan Diklic for his role in the film A Stranger/Obrana i zaštita.

A Stranger by Bobo Jelcic

In the Short Competition, the Romanian film Shadow of a Cloud by Radu Jude won the Heart of Sarajevo for Besti Short Film. The films Rabittland by Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak.jr (Serbia) and Pride by Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria, Germany) received a Special Jury Mention.

The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary film was awarded to Juri Rechinsky for his Documentary SICKFUCKPEOPLE (Austria) while the Greek Documentary The Cleaners by Konstantinos Georgousis won the Special Jury Prize for Competition Programme Documentary Film. The Human Rights Award was handed to the Croatian Documentary Married to the Swiss Franc by Arsen Oremovic. The Documentary Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved our Collective Body/Jugoslavija, Kako Je Ideologija Pokretala Nase Kolektivno Telo by Marta Popovida (Serbia, France, Germany) received a Special Jury Mention.

Finally the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo was given to the Hungarian director Bela Tarr.